Category Archives: Robot News

Creatures from across the animal kingdom offer design principles to make robots more useful, engaging, and lifelike. (IEEE Spectrum April 2009) LINK

From ASEE First BELL April 3, 2009 BBC News (4/3, Gill) reports that researchers at Aberystwyth University in Wales have developed “a robot that performs hundreds of repetitive experiments,” and “is the first machine to have independently ‘discovered new scientific … Continue reading →

Smart Robots Smart Robots, Inc. is a development stage company located in western Massachusetts that designs, develops and manufactures intelligent, flexible, networked, programmable mobile platforms and robotic arms.

A neat link to robot news: http://www.trendsinrobotics.com/

IEEE spectrum (http://spectrum.ieee.org) takes you inside Kiva Systems’ robotic warehouse, where orange robots make inventory move instead of workers. Over time the system becomes increasingly efficient, with the robots learning from the wisdom of the crowd. To read more about … Continue reading →

I know of two podcasts about robotics: Robots Talking Robots (no longer adding new episodes since May 22, 2008)

Circuit Cellar Magazine started a new Digital Plus edition of their magazine and is giving the first one away for free. Circuit Cellar magazine is a magazine for the embedded system enthusiasts, and since most robotic use embedded controllers you … Continue reading →

Now in it’s 16th year, the Trinity College Fire Fighting Home Robot Contest is one of the largest and longest running robot contests in the U.S. and attracts teams from all over the world. I have not personally competed in … Continue reading →